House of Silence
THE SECOND NOVEL FROM PATRICIA MARQUES, FOLLOWING ON FROM THE COLOURS OF DEATH
A woman's body is found in a river just outside of Lisbon. Inspectors Isabel Reis and Aleksandr Voronov identify the murder victim as Marta Nunes - a youth centre worker who, like Isabel, classifies as Gifted. Born with special abilities, the Gifted are often looked at with a certain level of suspicion.
In the search for her killer, Reis digs into Marta's past. She soon discovers that she is connected to a number of missing women. All young, all telepathic Gifted, all vanished off the face of the earth.
Marta might have been helping these missing girls, or she might have been hurting them. But Inspector Reis needs to find the truth about who killed Marta and why, and she needs to find where the missing girls go. Because some of them might still be alive out there . . .
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Patricia Marques
In a version of Lisbon just a step sideways from our own, where telepaths are real and suspicion runs deep, Patricia Marques invites readers into mysteries that don’t just ask whodunit—they ask who do we trust when thoughts aren’t private?
Born in Portugal and raised in London, Marques grew up between worlds, a reality that quietly echoes in her fiction. Her Inspector Isabel Reis series blends crime fiction with speculative elements, creating an atmospheric hybrid where psychological tension hums beneath every page. In novels like The Colours of Death and House of Silence, she probes questions of identity, power, and prejudice—not through heavy exposition, but through tightly woven plots that unfold with quiet intensity.
Inspector Reis
Inspector Reis consists of four books and considered as a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
